THOUGH the tragic building collapse at Ita Faji, Lagos Island,  no longer features in news reports, its fallouts have continued to resonate. In the aftermath of the sad event and in line with international best practices, the Lagos State government swiftly embarked on a systematic process of demolishing defective buildings across Lagos Island. This is basically as a precautionary measure to forestall future occurrence of such gruesome episode. Naturally, in the process, some people were displaced and there was an urgent need to resettle them. 

Nigeria has the latent capacities that can be exploited to manage her internal local politics and dynamics

The incessant extrajudicial killing by the Police and Customs, in recent times, requires the attention of the government. The President needs to take a more drastic decision to nip this in the bud by holding the heads of these agencies accountable for any loss of life.

As expected in a presidential democracy after a fiercely-fought general election, which was won by the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, the battle ground has shifted to the booty-sharing table. Of course, the National Chairman of APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and the National Publicity   Secretary, Lanre Issa-Onilu, had warned their party men and women that the game was a winner-takes-all, thus making it clear to the opposition parties in the legislature that there was nothing to share with the majority party in the choosing of principal officers in both the Senate and the House of Representatives.

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